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egging en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of pelting with eggs.
    • “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings. 2010, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom, page 167:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.
    • Plover egging was once a popular tradition.

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Deriveds

turtle-egging

egging en · VERB

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Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of egg
    form of egg